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[jazzmosis]

Originally Posted by virus-maker

Your an idiot. You said that legalizing the drugs would encourage more crime? If drugs were legal, there would be LESS crime, because it would be cheaper and you can just buy it legally. The reason there is crime because of drugs is because its too damn expensive from illegal drug dealers, so they steal to get their drugs. If its cheaper, they wont steal, they could afford it. Actually, according to statistics, America is one of the few countries that has outlawed marijuana, but it has the highest percentage of people that have tried marijuana. Now im not saying ALL drugs should be legal, but marijuana should be legalized, taxed, regulated, and made only illegal for kids.

Kids are the ones to try it and get addicted the most. You're not going to see some 35 year old trying it for the first time too often. If they've resisted it for that long why would they bother just because it would be legal? It's legal for me to drink but does that mean I go out and buy as much booze as possible?

And by "one of the few countries that outlawed marijuana", you mean, "one of the over 70% of countries in the world". And yes crime would go up because the regulation of a previously illegal drug would be near impossible to run effectively since the drugs would pour in from all angles.

Let's not forget the fact that weed is a gateway drug. So if you make weed legal, people are more likely to move on to drugs like crack, herion, Ectasy, and so on. And then, cime would go up so people can get their addictions filled in a better way.

Nothing good can come of legalizing a NARCOTIC.